Kentucky Route Zero: The Complete Season Reviews

Kentucky Route Zero: The Complete Season is ranked in the 96th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
6.5 / 10.0
Jan 28, 2020

If you’ve already played the game on PC there is little reason to revisit it unless you absolutely loved it and want to replay it on the go... Sometimes when a game like this takes so long to release the hype around it can be detrimental. On paper this is my kind of game, but it just never got its hooks into me.

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10 / 10
Feb 5, 2020

Kentucky Route Zero feels breathtakingly original. For something this powerful to exist in any medium would be a triumph. But for it to exist now, as an interactive narrative drawn with striking visuals, meaningful choices, and moving music, feels more like a miracle.

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Feb 17, 2020

With its sombre mood, innovative narrative design, and deeply poetic writing, Kentucky Route Zero is one of the most unique and important games ever made.

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70%
Feb 29, 2020

Kentucky Route Zero is a work of art that rests solely on its literary qualities and atmosphere. Good thing is that both of these aspects are very solid and the long wait for the final act was worth it. A worthy conclusion of a remarkable video game.

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Feb 1, 2020

Characters come and go, the underlying significance of their very existence seemingly shifting between acts, no doubt a consequence of the years it took to finish these acts; people change over time, and as Kentucky Route Zero limps—sometimes literally—toward a half-hearted and barely coherent conclusion that’s more of a misery-flavored Rorschach test than an understandable sequence of events driven by people worth caring about, the storylines that start to splay every which way suggest that the developers kept changing their minds about the game’s underlying meaning. Or maybe it simply shifted out from under them. Either way, Kentucky Route Zero is a game that’s ultimately meaningless, a meandering mess of pretentious nonsense that wields its (arguably undeserved) “art” status as a shield in order to protect itself from the pointlessness of the journey and the blandness of those journeying.

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7 / 10.0
Apr 24, 2020

Kentucky Route Zero tells fascinating tales about its world and the people who inhabit it, but fails to connect its many threads into a cohesive whole.

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9 / 10
Jun 24, 2020

Because it is rather obtuse at times, I can’t wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone, but if you’re anything like me and you love carefully-constructed, paradoxical art that is enlightening and entertaining, haunting and hopeful, melancholy and magical, perceptive and pointed, you might really fall in love with the existential irreverence of Kentucky Route Zero.

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7.8 / 10.0
Feb 15, 2020

Kentucky Route Zero is a graphic adventure suitable for those players who are able to appreciate titles in which you read a lot and play little, in the strict sense of the term.

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XboxEra
Harm0nica
6.5 / 10.0
Apr 11, 2022

If going on a surreal ‘road to nowhere’ journey is your thing, Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition may well be right up your street.  If you want to play games that respect your gaming time this is probably not for you.  This game has a lot going for it but at the same time contains many things that diminish its playability.  Being available on Game Pass does, however, make playing it more of a tempting proposition than actually having to pay for it.

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93 / 100
Mar 17, 2023

I gladly remember Kentucky Route Zero for its dense atmosphere, great soundtrack and beautiful places - even if I sometimes asked myself what I'm doing in this surreal world.

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8 / 10.0
Aug 28, 2023

Kentucky Route Zero is a fantastic story that took 7 years to tell, 12 hours to play, and will forever be one of my favorite point-and-click adventure games for a long while. It's rare for a game like this to captivate players with its deep characters, and excellent presentation and it does so brilliantly.

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Sep 6, 2023

Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition for the Xbox Series X|S is a bit of a strange beast. The narrative is engaging as it meanders to an end goal, but the journey from A to B is pretty abstract.

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Recommended
Sep 10, 2023

A surreal and emotional journey through the heartland of the United States, amidst highways and ghosts.

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4 / 5.0
Sep 19, 2023

Kentucky Route Zero TV Edition is like a Michelin meal — rich, decadent, experimental, yet still somehow recognizable but best enjoyed in small portions. I can easily see how the critically-acclaimed Kentucky Route Zero could become someone’s favorite game, so it stands to reason that Kentucky Route Zero TV Edition would be another success after the episodic original’s completion. Although I suspect Kentucky Route Zero is best experienced on the PC, Kentucky Route Zero TV Edition is still a must-play even if you’ve already enjoyed the original. And if you haven’t yet played this digital masterpiece, well… consider getting lost in Kentucky Route Zero TV Edition.

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Aug 24, 2023

Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition is a story-heavy game that not everyone will appreciate but those who do will love it a lot.

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GameSpew
Top Critic
7 / 10.0
Feb 3, 2020

More than being a video game, Kentucky Route Zero is a work of art

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9.5 / 10.0
Feb 3, 2020

Those looking for a challenge or something a bit more action packed won’t find what they’re looking for here, but those looking for a surreal and mysterious tale will have come to the right place.

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45 / 100
Feb 6, 2020

Kentucky Route Zero is an incredibly dull and over-embellished text adventure that fails to engage, entertain, or provide much value to anyone but perhaps the uppermost art connoisseurs.

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10 / 10.0
Feb 15, 2020

A melancholic magical realism adventure, and a funeral song over the coffin of the American dream.

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8.5 / 10.0
Feb 19, 2020

‎All in all, Kentucky Route Zero is an amazing indie, a game that isn't for everyone because of the number of lines of text displayed on screen and in some ways a title very different from anything else we've played in recent years. Its narrative of sometimes somewhat complex but the immersion it achieves on the part of the player in the 10 or 12 hours it takes to complete it is total. It is certainly a highly recommended experience for those looking for an introspective adventure that makes them reflect.‎

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